Don't want to drive on the snowy roads? If you live in the Easton or Allentown areas, it's time to order up some beer for delivery.

That's right, the Forks Township and Allentown locations of Big Woody's Pizza and Sports Bar have been awarded the Lehigh Valley's first restaurant-related beer delivery licenses.

The eateries have a roughly five-mile delivery radius, the same as for pizza.

"If we have delivered pizza to their house before, we can deliver beer," said Ken Carpenetti, Big Woody's accountant.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board caught the eatery off-guard by granting the Forks license on Tuesday within two weeks of the application. The Allentown license arrived via fax Wednesday afternoon. Woody's also has a pending application for its Bethlehem location.

"We are scrambling this morning," Carpenetti said. "We didn't expect the state to turn around this quickly."

Customers will have to present valid ID to the driver before they will receive their sudsy delivery. They can order beer alone, or with a food order.

"They have to pay with their credit card prior of the driver leaving the store," Carpenetti said.

As of 1:30 p.m., neither location had received a beer delivery request.

Big Woody's is among a handful of local eateries that have applied for the licenses. The LCB licensing website showed the Forks location as the only Lehigh Valley eatery to have an active beer delivery license.

The type of license, "Transporter for Hire Class B," has existed for years, but it was used primarily by companies that pick up malt or brewed beverages from distributors or producers and transport them to customers such as restaurants, said LCB spokeswoman Stacy Kriedeman.

The license was expanded, almost accidentally, in December to cover home beer deliveries. LCB attorneys responded to a question from the owner of the Roff School Tavern in Meadville, Crawford County, on whether it could ship a six-pack of craft beer to a customer in another state.

The answer was that to do that, Roff School Tavern and any other restaurant with a liquor license would have to obtain a Transporter for Hire license in addition to its existing liquor license.

"This is going to be a boomer of a Super Bowl season," Carpenetti said. "Impromptu parties, we can help you out."

Customers getting delivery beer will pay a fee, the same way they do for pizza home delivery, he said. And there is a limit: two six packs of 16-ounce cans per order.

Other Lehigh Valley eateries that were part of the first wave of applications seeking permission to deliver suds are 50-Yard-Line Sports Bar/Pizza Como of Bethlehem, Little John's Pizza in Allentown, and Cluck U in Stroudsburg. Those applications are still pending.